What's your internet speed?

[drogulus]

    Test your speed and give the results here. Other topics are the adequacy of your plan for various tasks like streaming and downloading, the availability of faster plans, and whatever else you might dream up.

[NikF]

    Test your speed and give the results here. Other topics are the adequacy of your plan for various tasks like streaming and downloading, the availability of faster plans, and whatever else you might dream up.

This is the connection I use at home. I don't know anything about this stuff and so I can't really comment on it much.
The modem is downstairs in a cupboard. I only have a tablet connected to it because my best friend/assistant still hasn't built my PC that we bought the components for at the start of this year.
At some point every day (if I remember) I leave the connection open in case anyone passing by needs bandwidth.
I don't know exactly how much it costs, but I think it's about 25 EUR/30USD a month.
And I don't know what other speeds or plans are available. But I do know I generally don't need much.

In the studio we had a business connection that was fast and reliable for sending RAW files to be edited. That was more expensive. It had two Macs and a Windows machine connected to it. The modem was under a desk in the reception/lounge area. I don't remember how much it cost.

e: I might be confusing 'modem' and 'router'.

[drogulus]

    I have what's called a gateway for my cable connection. It's a combined modem/router I use for both wired and wifi connection. I run 2 networks off of it, a 2.4 and a 5. I also have another wifi router to run a second pair of networks. This way I can run giant downloads on my PC while I stream movies on my Roku with less interference.

[71 dB]

Download speed: 97.61 Mbps
Upload speed: 9.90 Mbps
Ping: 30 ms

www.speedtest.net

[prémont]

Download speed  418 Mbps

Upload speed      422 Mbps

Ping 1 ms

The supplier says 500 / 500

[nodogen]

Faster than I can use it.

[Scion7]

my internet has velocity - a vector - since it points to a bunch of greedy Git's who charge way too much per month!   

[drogulus]

     

Faster than I can use it.

    I guess that means you don't feel the need for more speed. I'm thinking about getting a 4K TV fairly soon, and I'll be streaming Amazon video at 4K.

[nodogen]

     
    I guess that means you don't feel the need for more speed. I'm thinking about getting a 4K TV fairly soon, and I'll be streaming Amazon video at 4K.

Well, I don't know how to test it but I don't seem to have any issues over loading or streaming or whatever. The TV goes on rarely. 😴

[amw]

thanks new zealand

there are times when I suspect a shark chewed through the cable connecting us to the rest of the world....

[nodogen]

Response time (latency) 492 ms
Download speed 1.7 Mbps
Upload speed 0.9 Mbps

🤔

[Autumn Leaves]

LOL..



There is an ongoing upgrade to the internet service in Australia ATM - as you can see from the above it sucks ATM .

thanks new zealand

there are times when I suspect a shark chewed through the cable connecting us to the rest of the world....

This makes me feel (slightly) better - yes, that is bad..

[nodogen]

So is mine good, bad, average or...?

[North Star]

LOL..



There is an ongoing upgrade to the internet service in Australia ATM - as you can see from the above it sucks ATM .

thanks new zealand

there are times when I suspect a shark chewed through the cable connecting us to the rest of the world....

This makes me feel (slightly) better - yes, that is bad..

Ugh. Just ugh.

[Autumn Leaves]

So is mine good, bad, average or...?

Your Ping and Upload Speed is better than amw's but your Download speed is the lowest posted so far - I don't know a lot about Computers I guess but going from the data you posted your speed does seem very slow.

You're living in the UK right? - I lived in London for a few years back in the early 2000's and I remember the internet connection there was a revelation coming from Australia.
Places like Australia and New Zealand lag behind other parts of the world in internet connectivity so your result really surprises me - are you on a Dial-Up connect or living somewhere that's remote?.

[Autumn Leaves]

This makes me feel (slightly) better - yes, that is bad..



Ugh. Just ugh.

wow.. - another suprise: I assumed most of Europe had good connectivity..

[North Star]

wow.. - another suprise: I assumed most of Europe had good connectivity..

It's just my housing company's lousy Internet.

[amw]

as far as I know a ping exceeding 50-60 ms is a bad sign. Definitely quite bad here, although to be fair I think I was checking it during peak load hours.

Mbps is megabits per second and a bit is 1/8 of a byte. So if you're getting download speeds of 1 Mb/s that translates into 128 kilobytes of data per second, or about twice as fast as the old dial-up connections. I think.

DSL (including my useless supplier) is supposed to be something like 20 Mb/s, broadband something like 50 Mb/s and cable/fibre-optic are higher (100?)

I don't really know much about computers either though.

[Autumn Leaves]

It's just my housing company's lousy Internet.

I see - Is it some kind of shared connection?

[Autumn Leaves]

as far as I know a ping exceeding 50-60 ms is a bad sign. Definitely quite bad here, although to be fair I think I was checking it during peak load hours.

Mbps is megabits per second and a bit is 1/8 of a byte. So if you're getting download speeds of 1 Mb/s that translates into 128 kilobytes of data per second, or about twice as fast as the old dial-up connections. I think.

DSL (including my useless supplier) is supposed to be something like 20 Mb/s, broadband something like 50 Mb/s and cable/fibre-optic are higher (100?)

I don't really know much about computers either though.

Thanks amw - I remember you saying that you download a lot of stuff; is that right?. Does it take forever when you want to download a full album? (I dread to think what time a box-set would take... ).